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A25923 Articles given by [...] and delivered to the church-wardens to be considered and answered in his visitation holden in the year of our Lord God [...] : whereunto the said church-wardens and side-men are upon their oathes to answer truly and particularly. Church of England. 1664 (1664) Wing A3829; ESTC R170379 9,690 12

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whether there be any Inn-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victuallers or other persons that permit any persons in their Houses to eat drink or play during the time of Divine Service or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoon or afternoon upon those dayes 13. Whether the fif●h day of November be kept holy and thanksgiving made to God for his Majesties and this States happy deliverance according to the Ordinance in that behalf And the 30th of January be kept as a day of humiliation for the murthering of King Charles the Martyr 14. Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any Conventicles or private Congregations or make or maintain any constitutions agréed upon in any such Assemblies Or any that do write or publickly or privately speak against the Book of Common-Prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agréed upon in Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance pretending the same to be unlawful and not warrantable by the Word of God Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Government of the Church of England under the Kings most Excellent Majesty by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the said Ecclesiastical Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authors Maintainers or Favourers of Heresie or Schism or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Love or any other Heresie or Schism present their names 15. Whether any in your Parish have married within the degrées by Law prohibited and where and by whom And whether any couple in your Parish being lawfully married live apart one from the other without due separation by the Law or any that have béen divorced which kéep company with any other at Bed or at Boord 16. Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawful authority or suppress the last Will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any Wills not yet proved or goods of the dead dying intestate left unadministred by authority in that behalf You shall not fail to present the Executors and all other faulty therein 17. Whether any with-hold the Stock of the Church or any goods or other things given to good and charitable uses 18. Whether your Hospitals and Alms-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable uses and the Lands Possessions and Goods of the same be ordered and disposed of as they should be And do the Masters Governours Fellows and others of the said Houses and Corporations behave and demean themselves according to the Ordinances and Statutes of their several foundations 19. Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame or report which have committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which hath impudently bragged or boasted that he or they have lived incontinently with any person or persons whatsoever or any have attempted the chastitie of any Woman or solicited any Woman to have the carnal knowledge of her body or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbors and sowers of Discord filthy and lascivious Talkers Vsurpers Symonical Persons Bawds or Harborers of Women with child which be unmarried or conveying or suffering them to go away before they have made satisfaction to the Church or any that have heretofore béen presented or suspected of any the aforesaid crimes have for that cause departed the Parish and are not returned again or any which have used any Inchantments Sorceries Incantations or Witchcrafts which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realm or any which have committed any perjury in any Ecclesiastical Court in an Ecclesiastical cause or which have committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiastical Laws and the procurors and abettors of the said offences you shall truly present the names of all and singular the said offendors and with whom they have committed the said offences in case they have not béen publickly punished to your knowledge for the said crimes Physitians Chirurgions and Midwives HOw many Physitians Chirurgions or Midwives have you in your Parish How long have they used their several Sciences or Offices and by what authority And how have they demeaned themselves therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their profession And whether have they license from the Ordinary or Chancellor for to practice Touching the Church-Wardens and Side-men 1. VVHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time do and have done their diligence in not suffering any idle person to abide either in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Service or Sermon-time but causing them either to come into the Church to hear Divine Service or to depart and not disturb such as be hearers there And whether they have and you do diligently sée the Parishoners duly resort to the Church every Sunday and Holiday and there to remain during Divine Service and Sermon And whether you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffer any playes feasts drinkings or any other prophane usages to be kept in your Church Chappel or Church-yards or have suffered to your and their uttermost power and endeavour any person or persons to lie tipling or drinking in any Inn or Victualling-house in your Parish during the time of Divine Service or Sermon on Sundayes and Holydaies 2. Whether and how often have you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chappel which was not sufficiently licensed And whether you together with your Minister have not taken diligent héed and care that every Parishioner being of sixtéen years of age or upwards have received thrice every year as aforesaid and also that no stranger have usually come to your Church from their own Parish-Church 3. Whether have there béen provided against every Communion a sufficient quantity of fine white bread and good and wholesome wine for the Communicants that shall receive And whether that wine be brought in a clean and swéet standing pot of pewter or of other purer mettal 4. Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the Parishioners And have the late Church-wardens given up a just account for their time and delivered to their successors by Bill indented the money and other things belonging to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the use of the poor 5. Whether do you sée the names of all Preachers which are strangers and preach in your Parish-Churches to be noted in a book for that purpose and whether every Preacher do subscribe his name and of whom he had his License 6. Whether any man do trouble or molest you for doing your duties 7. Whether there be any Legacies withholden given to the Church or poor people or to the mending of High-waies or otherwise by the Testators In whose hands it is by whom it was given and by whom it is withholden 8. Do you know any thing that hath béen complained of that is not redressed FINIS
dayes appointed to be observed by the Book of Common-Prayer as Wednesdayes and Fridayes and the Eves of every Sunday and Holy-day at fit and usual times And doth he duly observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said New Book of Common-Prayer as well in reading publick Prayers as the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visiting the sick burying the dead Churching of women and all other the Rites and Offices of the Church in such manner and form as in the said Book of Common-Prayer he is injoyned without any omission or addition And doth he read the Book of the last Canons yearly and wear a Surpllice according to the said Canons 2. Doth your Minister bid Holy Dayes and Fasting dayes as by the Book of Common-Prayer is appointed And doth he give warning before-hand to the Parishioners for the receiving of the holy Communion as the two and twentieth Canon requireth and whether he doth administer the holy Communion so often and at such times as that every Parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in every year whereof once at Easter as by the Book of Common-prayer is appointed And doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day that he administreth it to others and use the words of institution according to the Book at every time that the Bread and Wine is renewed accordingly as by the proviso of the 21 Canon is directed And doth he deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally and knéeling Whether he hath admitted to the holy Communion any notorious Offender or Schismatick contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions or put any from the Communion who are not publikely infamous for any notorious crime Doth he use the sign of the Cross in Baptism or baptize in any bason or other Vessel and not in the usual Font or admit any Father to be God-father to his own child or such who have not received the holy Communion or baptize any children that were not born in the parish or wilfully refuse to baptize any Infant in his parish being in danger having been informed of the weakness of the said child and whether the Child dyeth through his default without Baptism 3. Whether hath your Minister married any without a Ring or without Banes published thrée several Sundayes or Holy-dayes in time of Divine Service in the several Churches or Chappels of their several abode according to the Book of Common-prayer or in times prohibited albeit the Banes were thrice published without a License or Dispensation from the Arch-bishop the Bishop of the Diocess or his Chancellor first obtained in that behalf Or not betwixt the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon or have married any in any private house or if the parties be under the age of 21. years before their Parents or Governours have signified their consent unto them 4. Doth he refuse to bury any which ought to be interred in Christian burial or defer the same longer then he should or bury any in Christian buririal which by the constitutions of the Church of England or Laws of the Land ought not to be so interred 5. Is your Minister a Preacher allowed by licence from the Bishop 6. Doth your Minister being licensed preach usually according to the Canons either in his own Cure or in some other Church or Chappel near adjoyning where no other Preacher is and how often he hath been negligent in that behalf and doth Preach standing and with his hat off Or whether doth he or his Curate upon every Sunday when there is no Sermon read an Homily or some part thereof or Catechise the yongar sort according as he ought to do or in case he be not licensed to Preach doth he take upon him to Preach or expound the Scriptures in his own Cure or elsewhere If so then you are to present the same the time and place when and where he did it 7. Doth your Minister use to pray for the Kings Majesty King Charles and for the Queens Majesty and all the Royal Progeny with addition of such Stile and Titles as are due to their Hignesses and exhort the people to obedience to his Majesty and all Magistrates in authority under him And doth he also pray for all Arch-bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons 8. Is your Minister constantly resident unto his Benefice and how long time hath he béen absent and in case he be licensed to be absent whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplyed according to the Canons Or in case he hath another Benefice whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licensed to preach in that Cure where he himself is not resident Or otherwise in case the smallness of the living cannot find a preaching Minister doth he preach at both his Benefices usually 9. Doth your Minister or Curate every Sunday or Holy day before Evening-Prayer for half an hour or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his Parish in the ten Commandments Articles of the Belief and in the Lords Prayer and the Sacraments according as it is prescribed in the Catechism set forth in the book of Common-Prayer only And if he do not where is the fault either in the Parents and Masters of the children or in the Curare neglecting his duty And is he careful to tender all such youth of his Parish as have béen well instructed in their Catechism to be confirmed by the Bishop in his Visitation or any other convenient time as is appointed by the book aforesaid 10. Doth your Minister in the Rogation dayes go in perambulation of the circuit of the Parish saying and using the prayers suffrages and thanksgiving to God appointed by Law according to his duty thanking God for his blessings if there be plenty on the earth Or otherwise to pray for his grace and favour if there be a fear of scarcity 11. Hath your Minister admitted any Woman gotten with child in adultery or fornication to be Churched without license of the Ordinary 12. Hath your Minister or any other Preacher Baptized children Churched any Woman or Ministred the holy Communion in any private house otherwise then by Law is allowed 13. Doth your Minister carefully look to the relief of the poor and from time to time call upon his Parishoners to give somewhat as they can spare to godly and charitable uses especially when they make their Testaments 14. Doth your Minister use such decency and comliness in his apparel as by the 47 Canon is enjoyned is he of sober behaviour and one that doth not use such bodily labour as it is not séemly for his function and calling 15. When any person hath been dangerously sick in your Parish hath he neglected to visit him and when any have béen parting out of this life hath he omitted to do his last dury in that behalf 16. Doth your Minister Curate or Lecturer in his or their Sermons deliver such